27.3. Symposium: Time, memory, and representation

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Symposium: Time, memory, and representation

27 March 9.00-16.30
Arcanum Arc270 & Zoom: https://utu.zoom.us/j/66032120302 [Zoom passcode 787019]
In English

How is time represented in works that purport to, or are generally assumed to, capture real events? How do diverse conceptualizations of memory (from St. Augustine to Walter Benjamin, from Sigmund Freud to recent developments in cognitive science) shape and/or shed light on the representation of time and memory? How does fiction represent traumatic memories or illness? In this symposium organised by former SELMA visiting scholar, Dr. Sara Villamarin-Freire, literary scholars from different universities explore topic related to these and even broader questions.

Seminar programme: 45 – 9:00 Arrival 9:00 – 10:15 Panel 1 – Acts of remembrance Nikolay Barzakov, “The Kinetic Unconscious and the Predictive Body in Performance Practice” Niina Hanhinen, “Nostalgia without Nostalgia – ‘Heimat’ in Nora Krug’s Heimat” Riikka Pirinen, “Memory epiphanies in short story form: involuntary memories as tellable events of past” Nia Sullivan, “Care Is How We Remember: Memory as a Site of Healing in the Good Hair Day Collective” 10:15 – 10:30 Break 10:30 – 11:30 Panel 2 – Time and temporality: Entanglements of past and future (I) Natan Elgabsi, “Metanarratives of Fate: Tragedy, Historicity, and the Temporality of Freedom” Kseniya Fiaduta, “The Tragedy of Time”: Representation of Chernobyl Catastrophe in Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future” Jouni Teittinen, “Pining for the Future: Transhumanist Nostalgia, Utopia, Community” 11:30 – 12:30 Panel 3 – Time and temporality: Entanglements of past and future (II) Lovisa Andén, “Temporalities in Testimonial Literature from the Gulag Archipelago” Fatima Borrmann, “Narrating Three Generations in Women’s Fiction” Avril Tynan, “Slow Narratives of Addiction Recovery” 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:00 Panel 4 – Cultural memory in public discourse Aitor Insunza Núñez, “Transnational Time and Tradition. The Commemoration of the 1896 ‘Hungarian Millennium’ in the Spanish Catholic Press” Nanny Jolma, “Memory, Fictionality, and Narrative Positioning in Oral History Interviews of Finnish Politicians” Judit Kerpics, “Emancipated Female Duel: A 19th Century Newspaper Hoax in Cultural Memory” 15:00 – 15:15 Break 15:15 – 16:30 Roundtable: Intersections of Time, Memory and Life Writing Koko Hubara (University of Turku, Finland) Niamh Gordon (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) Sara Villamarín Freire (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

If you are planning to participate on-site, please sign up so that we can plan the amount of coffee accordingly: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/84C82B0DE9A2E9EF

Book of abstracts